Leonard Steckel
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Leonard Steckel (18 January 1901 – 9 February 1971) was a German-Jewish[1] actor and director of stage and screen.
Steckel was born as Leonhard Steckel in Knihinin, a Galician town that is today a district of the city Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He began his career as a stage actor and spent the duration of World War II in exile in Zürich, Switzerland, where he had gone to work at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. It was during this time that he began to direct. Steckel was killed in a major rail accident on 9 February 1971 in Aitrang, Germany.
Selected filmography[]
- Phantoms of Happiness (1929)
- The Adventurer of Tunis (1931)
- The Daredevil (1931)
- The Captain from Köpenick (1931)
- Nights in Port Said (1932)
- I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are (1932)
- The Company's in Love (1932)
- Gitta Discovers Her Heart (1932)
- The House of Dora Green (1933)
- Invisible Opponent (1933)
- A Song for You (1933)
- Palace Hotel (1952)
- Southern Nights (1953)
- The Seven Dresses of Katrin (1954)
- Spring Song (1954)
- Beloved Enemy (1955)
- Love Without Illusions (1955)
- Ballerina (1956)
- Without You All Is Darkness (1956)
- Stresemann (1957)
- The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958)
- The Green Devils of Monte Cassino (1958)
- Marili (1959)
- Sweetheart of the Gods (1960)
- The Phone Rings Every Night (1962)
- The Visit (1964)
- Once a Greek (1966)
References[]
- ^ Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213
External links[]
- Biography with photo (in German)
- Leonard Steckel at IMDb
Categories:
- 1901 births
- 1971 deaths
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Switzerland
- Jewish German male actors
- German male stage actors
- People from Ivano-Frankivsk
- German theatre directors
- German film directors
- Railway accident deaths in Germany
- German male film actors
- German male television actors
- 20th-century German male actors
- German screen actor stubs